- Abolition of certain impediments to marriage, such as the army regulation forbidding officers to marry before they reach a certain grade.
- Increase of tax on alcohol, tobacco and luxuries, the proceeds to be used to subsidize worthy families.
- Medical regulations of a hygienic nature.
- Setting out large prizes for excellent works of art (novels, dramas, plastic arts) which glorify the ideal of motherhood, the family and simple life.
- Awakening a national mind ready to undergo sacrifices on behalf of future generations.
In spite of some defects such a program brings out clearly the principle of eugenics,—the substitution of a selective birth-rate for the selective death-rate by which natural selection has brought the race to its present level. Nature lets a multitude of individuals be born and kills off the poorer ones; eugenics proposes to have fewer poor ones and more good ones born in each generation.
Any means which tends to bring about one of those ends, is a part